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This Is Your Life
by John O'Farrell
 
 
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'Excellently done...O'Farrell gives an extra squirm to the traditional English comedy of embarrassment'
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It’s a big night at the London Palladium. As Jimmy Conway steps out blinking into the spotlights live on national television, he can’t help wondering whether he should have perhaps shared his little secret with someone by now. Jimmy has never done any performing of any sort ever before…

Just as ‘bogus doctors’ are occasionally discovered working in hospitals, Jimmy Conway has become a ‘bogus celebrity’; winning an award for something he never did, being photographed in Hello! in someone else’s house, and ultimately making a fool of the entire mad and shallow celebrity merry-go-round.

 

 

 

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Black Swan • Modern fiction
Publication Date: 01/05/2003 • 336 pages • 198 x 127 mm • ISBN: 0552998494
Territory: World ex USA,Can • EAN: 9780552998499

 

 

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  John O'Farrell

John O’Farrell is the bestselling author of three novels: The Best A Man Can Get, This is Your Life and most recently May Contain Nuts. He has published three collections of his Guardian columns, Global Village Idiot, I Blame the Scapegoats, and I Have a Bream, as well as the political memoir Things Can Only Get Better. He is the editor of Britain’s most popular satirical website NewsBiscuit and regularly appears on TV and radio on programmes such as Have I Got News For You and Grumpy Old Men and is the author of the bestselling history book, An Utterly Impartial History of Britain.

His work has been translated into over twenty languages, although how the gags work in Norwegian is anyone’s guess.

   
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